Will Wilberforce flip in his grave?
"Yet the Darwin-Wedgwood maxim made the slave a "Man and a Brother". Darwin opened his first evolution notebook in 1837, damned slave-holders for their separate species view, then pushed common parentage to the zoological limit." -BBC
In their book, Adrian Desmond and James Moore argue that Charles Darwin, father of evolution, invented his theory due to his anti-slavery conviction. Darwin was, argued Desmond and Moore, against the slavers' idea that the blacks were of an inferior species, and hence he sought to forward that all man are decendents of the same species. Thus his evolution idea that all man decended from the same microb was borned.
Factual level aside, I can't help but be amused/bemused by the whole irony of this thing. The father of anti-slavery, William Wilberforce, is known to forward that men are created equal and hence slavery is the trade of brutes. His conviction stemmed from his believe in God, and his strength for his anti-slavery fight came from the very fact that he was a devoted Christian and passionate servant of God, and would not tolerate such injustice to be performed by a country that on an official level, honoured God.
If, suppose, that Darwin had shared that same passion at the injustice, and love for the fellowman, he wrote out of a true heart to want to topple slavers' ridiculous notion that the blacks are of an inferior species. Isn't it ironic that his evolution, borned out of his love for his fellowman, is anti-God, while on the other hand, Wilberforce, whose anti-slavery fight was also borned out of his love for his fellowman, loved God? How utterly ironic that one who fathered an anti-God doctrine should father it out of a passion stirred by a man who loved God and wanted God's justice to be mete.
I wonder how Wilberforce will feel.
In any case, the simple doctrine that all man are decendents of Adam and Eve is enough to overthrow the slavers' ignorance. There is absolutely no need for Darwin and his anti-God doctrine to overthrow the myth.
Information gotten from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856157.stm.